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21 Because of your word and according to the plan of your heart, you have carried out this great thing in order to make your servant aware of it. 22 Therefore, you are great, Lord God, because there is none like you. There is no God except you, in keeping with everything we have heard with our ears.

23 Who is like your people Israel, the one people on earth whom God went out to redeem for himself, to make them his people and to make a name for himself? You yourself did great and awe-inspiring things for your land in the presence of your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, in the presence of the nations and their gods.[a]

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  1. 2 Samuel 7:23 The word order and agreement of the nouns in this verse is unusual and requires some rearranging in English.

21 For the sake of your word and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made it known to your servant.

22 “How great(A) you are,(B) Sovereign Lord! There is no one like(C) you, and there is no God(D) but you, as we have heard with our own ears.(E) 23 And who is like your people Israel(F)—the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself, and to make a name(G) for himself, and to perform great and awesome wonders(H) by driving out nations and their gods from before your people, whom you redeemed(I) from Egypt?[a]

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  1. 2 Samuel 7:23 See Septuagint and 1 Chron. 17:21; Hebrew wonders for your land and before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt, from the nations and their gods.